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December 13, 2017

Rats in Eugene linked to chickens, compost

  • Pest control companies say that they're getting more calls about rats over the past year, and blame chicken coops, compost piles and backyard gardens.
    • By CHRISTIAN HILL
    The Register-Guard

    EUGENE, Ore. — In late 2016, Eugene resident Jim Kocher and his wife, Sally, began hearing strange knocking and pitter-patter sounds in the ceiling and walls of their home.

    An exterminator quickly identified the culprits as rats and, over the course of six months, trapped about 10 of them. But after a year of lost sleep and increased anxiety, rodents still are running free somewhere inside their Friendly-area neighborhood home.


     
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